by Mac Slavo, SHTF Plan:

The total and complete collapse of the United States empire is inevitable. It will fall under the weight of its own military-industrial complex and overtly totalitarian control regime. The U.S. ruling class is showing no desire to try to “fix” the financial destruction that is well underway.

The U.S. has military superiority over all other countries, but control over larger ruling classes such as that of Russia and China is quickly waning. However, the U.S. is still in control of the world’s oceans via critical sea lanes, with garrisons on every continent, a network of alliances that covers much of the industrial world, the ability to render individuals to secret prisons in countries from Cuba to Thailand, preponderant influence over the global financial system, about 30% of the world’s wealth and a continental economy not dependent on international trade.